Back to Basics

Hello family and friends! 

Welcome to the start of my next adventure in life, "Sew Lovely". Sew Lovely blog is the very humble start to what I plan to build into a fabric store and sewing studio. I want to bring my love for fabric and creating to you so that you too, can create.

I hope you enjoy reading about the new projects I have set aside for the past few years and have been building in my creative pool. Really it’s an extension or continuation of a previous adventure my sister and I started 5 years ago, called “Goosey Bear”. 

Kaya and Lucia in an Aunt Jenny creation, designed by their creative mom, Kate

Goosey Bear was affectionately named after my two youngest nieces, Kaya ‘Bear’ and Lucia Carmen who we called Goose. Our store could not have been more appropriately named as this was the driving force of inspiration behind our designs. Our days and nights revolved around making the idea of Goosey Bear get off the ground and that is just what we did. Our last show was a huge success at the Baton Rouge Junior League’s Holly Days. However, the biggest success of GB was the opportunity for my sister and I to build and grow a lifelong bond. 

Aunt Jenny and Lucy making some burp cloths!! Lucy is the best helper!

Little did Kate and I know at the time, but shortly after our successful show, both her and I would start a new journey through our ‘day time jobs’ that would take Kate and her family to Grand Caymen for four years and myself to Memphis and then Minneapolis. Our optimistic plans of continuing GB as we moved to different cities was put to the side as our careers and families began to flourish. Its hard to believe that we have totes and totes of beautiful, soft burps, bibs, blankets and more, sitting in tubs in our dad’s office. We like to affectionately go up to the storage room (when back home in N.O) just to look and feel our product. It pains both of us to just have it sitting there. 

Hopefully, as we begin to move back home, we will be able to pick where we left off. It’s fun to still, 5 years later, see our customers get excited about our products. 

With this blog, I am hoping to journal my entrance back into the sewing world. It’s been several years since I’ve let my creative side unleashed. I miss her. It’s hard to believe that my sewing machine has been in my closet for 6 months now. How does that happen?!!  It’s time to regroup and get back to it. I hope that you enjoy reading and I even more so hope that I inspire you to try some of these projects on your own.

Happy creating!